Family: Alcidae (Auks)

Authority: (Linnaeus, 1758)

Red List Category

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Justification of Red List category
This species was formerly distributed across the north Atlantic, but is now Extinct as a result of hunting pressure. The last live bird was seen in 1852.

Population size: unknown

Population trend:

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - continent
Land-mass type - oceanic island
Land-mass type - shelf island
Realm - Nearctic
Realm - Palearctic
IUCN System - Marine